Buying a new Motherboard

[icabass3]

I've narrowed it down to these two boards.

Which would you recommend to purchase over the other?

This Board VS This Board

I'm already looking forward to your replies!

 

[middlemarkal]

both good but ASUS has usb 3.1 more future proof

 

[geofelt]

Why are you buying a new motherboard?

Unless you have a special need, either should be equally good.

 

[icabass3]

I've been diagnosing a repeated blue screen for weeks. Ram checks out as fine. No errors in Hard drive. GPU's are fine. It can only be replicated when playing BF4 while using Teamspeak 3, Fraps, SpeedFan, etc. Meaning a decent load on the chip-set / memory controller.

Using CrossfireX. is really only need. It's obviously for gaming.

 

[geofelt]

If you can run memtest86+ successfully, I doubt that the motherboard is at fault.

Possibly, you need a bios update to handle some unique situation.

I assume your game is up to current patch level and your graphics drivers are up to date.

One possibility is that your psu is weak or failing. Such a condition can cause a problem when under higher graphics load.
What make/model is your psu?
What cpu and graphics cards?

 

[icabass3]

If you can run memtest86+ successfully, I doubt that the motherboard is at fault.

Possibly, you need a bios update to handle some unique situation.

I assume your game is up to current patch level and your graphics drivers are up to date.

One possibility is that your psu is weak or failing. Such a condition can cause a problem when under higher graphics load.
What make/model is your psu?
What cpu and graphics cards?

Well I've run windows memory test 10 times in extended mode with cache. Reformatted windows. RMA'd my old ram. Graphics are up to date. Game is up to date. I upgraded my BIOS no change. I've also run windows repair, and chkdsk I don't know how many times. Also have scanned for rootkits, and found none. No viruses.....it's just so random!

Using a Corsair 750Watt PSU Modular.
i5 4670K Stock speed though. No overclock on anything.
2 Vision Tek R7 260X's I've tested both and they seem to be just dandy.

I'm running the Gigabyte Z87X-D3H. This board is notorious for not recognizing dual channel RAM and causing blue-screens. It is believed to be a memory controller or something otherwise.

Seriously google "Gigabyte Z87 Dual channel memory problems" and take a look for yourself. I'm up for trying anything that could help.

 

[geofelt]

I see some relating to 4 sticks of ram.
If it truly is a ram issue, that is sometimes helped by giving the ram a touch more than default voltage in the bios.

How do you do if you use just one of your graphics cards and don't use crossfire?

 

[icabass3]

I see some relating to 4 sticks of ram.
If it truly is a ram issue, that is sometimes helped by giving the ram a touch more than default voltage in the bios.

How do you do if you use just one of your graphics cards and don't use crossfire?

It will still crash, even with one card removed. I did test both cards individually and it still blue-screened with both cards.

Correct. I'm trying to run (And have run in the past fine until now) a Corsair 16GB Kit of Ram (4GB * 4 modules)

I've tried one stick at a time and it seems okay until I put something in to the next channel slot. I've even tried 2gb sticks of ram. Those did okay. It seems to be even with just 8 gb (4GB * 2 Modules) that the motherboard just doesn't like having to deal with 4GB RAM modules.

It's funny you mention that. The only success I've had is upping the voltage from stock 1.5 to 1.625 volts. But strangely this caused my processor temp's to go waay up -- With water cooling, it was getting to 68-70 C in game with the water cooling and all fans on full blast. Some may say that's fine, but in the past it ran in the 48-50 C range in game before when it was fine! And personally I don't like my CPU temps being that high.

Any other ideas?? (I really appreciate your suggestions! I've posted around and no one seems to care enough to help me)

 

[geofelt]

Have you verified that your ram kit is supported by your motherboard?
The corsair web site has a ram configurator.
Enter your motherboard and you will get a list of supported kits.
I reiterate KITS where all 4 stick are matched so they will run together.
Two identical 8gb kits are not guaranteed to work together.

You might run memtest86+ which seems to be the gold standard for testing ram.

Higher than stock 1.5v seems to have some connection to haswell overclocking.
Run all ram at default speed.
Performance differences are very small.

You could open an incident with Corsair.

 

[icabass3]

Have you verified that your ram kit is supported by your motherboard?
The corsair web site has a ram configurator.
Enter your motherboard and you will get a list of supported kits.
I reiterate KITS where all 4 stick are matched so they will run together.
Two identical 8gb kits are not guaranteed to work together.

You might run memtest86+ which seems to be the gold standard for testing ram.

Higher than stock 1.5v seems to have some connection to haswell overclocking.
Run all ram at default speed.
Performance differences are very small.

You could open an incident with Corsair.

Yep, the exact Kit # is listed as compatible with the board. Correct, my kit is 4 Gig. Sticks, and there are 4 of them. Correct after experimenting with the voltage I have returned it to stock.

See the thing is this build is over 1 year old and ran flawlessly up until a few weeks ago...since everything checks out that's why I believe it's the board.

Yeah there are actually incident reports already filed with Corsair about the Board and RAM combination, it never got resolved.

I will run memtest86 again. If it fails okay, if not I'm still ditching this board considering many people have complained of the same problem.

I appreciate all your help!

 

[geofelt]

Is there anything new that happened a week ago?

I guess failures do happen and a replacement motherboard is in order.

Is your gigabyte motherboard still under warranty?
You probably don't want to wait for it to get fixed.

 

[icabass3]

No sadly, and if there was I figure it would have been cleared up by re-installing windows from a fresh format.

No my G.A. board only had like a 30 day warranty from New-egg I believe.

I would R.M.A it to Gigabyte, but they would just send me the exact same board...with the same bugs